Looking For Alaska Grief

In Looking for Alaska by John Green, Miles Halter is looking for a great and uncertain future, which he refers to as a Great Perhaps. He goes looking for a Great Perhaps at Culver Creek Boarding School in Alabama. Miles arrives at school, tries to make some good friends, and pass his difficult classes. He befriends the Colonel, Alaska, and Takumi. Together they cause trouble by smoking, pulling pranks, and drinking. Miles’ classes are harder than he is used to, he struggles to maintain his friendships

Looking for Alaska, by John Green, is a teen fiction novel about a boy named Miles. He attends Culver Creek Boarding School, and is immediately included into his roommate’s friend group which consists of Takumi, Lara, The Colonel, and the mysterious Alaska Young (Goggins 1). Over time, he falls in love with Alaska Young, who intends to seek revenge on the Weekday Warriors who had dumped Miles into a river. Alaska, being the queen of pranks, created, and successfully followed-through with the prank

States is still present today. This essay looks to explore how Looking for Alaska by John Green has dealt with contemporary censorship issues. The novel was published in the year of 2005, and within the same year the teen book claimed the number one spot on a list of controversial books. To many people's surprise, the novel was even higher on the list than other known books such as Fifty Shades of Grey. So what making Looking for Alaska so bad to put it at the top? Is it the fact that the novel is

The Definition of grief is, deep sorrow, with that in mind, defining grief in Looking for Alaska, isn’t that difficult. With grief in both the middle, and the end, there are plenty of examples of characters who experience the grief of losing one of their friends. Defining grief in a Separate Peace is a bit more difficult. Yes, Gene feels something after Gene pushes Finny out of the tree, but i’m not so sure that Gene really felt grief, more of just guilt and a wish that he hadn’t done it. Eventually

and friendship between Miles, Alaska and the other characters. He incorporates the romance and friendship into the book with a strange love triangle. The romance and friendship effect the events in the novel because Miles becomes optimistic about Alaska’s death, Miles can escape his grief labyrinth, and Miles realizes Alaska won’t love him. John Green wrote this book to relate to the feelings many of us experience and how times can get tough. Looking For Alaska has one of the strangest love

The role of alcohol in Looking for Alaska Miles Halter is tire of his boring, predictable, and friendless life, so he decides to attend Culver Creek boarding school for his junior year of high school. Originally inspired by his fascination of famous last words, he takes on poet Francois Rabelais as a challenge “I seek to find the Great Perhaps”. He heads off to Culver Creek boarding school, and his life becomes anything but boring. Upon his arrival Miles meets his room-mate Chip Martin also know

John Green’s novel Looking for Alaska tells the story of Miles Halter, a shy teenager who transfers to Culver Creek Boarding School for his junior year of high school, in search of the “Great Perhaps”. His roommate, Chip Martin, “The Colonel” takes Miles under his wing and nicknames him Pudge. Miles introduces him to the erratic lifestyle of smoking, drinking, pranks, and Alaska Young. Alaska Young is, witty, moody, beautiful, and self-destructive, and Pudge is attracted to her. When a few of

Green, Looking for Alaska. In many books or even many people's lives you encounter tragedy or pain. Some more than others. Everyone deals with grief in different ways. In the book, Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield isolated himself from everyone. He started fighting and getting

John Green’s, Looking For Alaska, is a book about the lives of a group of teenagers and how their experience, alone and together, shape their lives as they grow towards adulthood. The main character, Miles Halter, lives a boring and lonely life. He has no friends and wonders what he is missing and decides to go to boarding school in Culver Creek to try to search for his “Great Perhaps” (5), what lies beyond his known, safe life. The reader follows Miles’ journey as he makes friends, falls in love

Halter and I believe that my story, Looking For Alaska, is important and should not be banned in schools across the country. Although my story may have mentions of drugs, sex, and alcohol, the ability to convey an important message is not hindered. Looking For Alaska has relatable characters and dark themes which actually make it a story that should be read by young adults. My story deals with heavy topics that teens may relate to. One of my closest friends, Alaska, suffers from depression. When she

In the engrossing novel, “Looking for Alaska,” John Green uses multiple discrete characters to seek for the purpose of life, death and suffering. He symbolizes these ideas with a labyrinth. Its meaning is a mystery of the novel, although Alaska Young thinks that it's about suffering. An excerpt from the book of a conversation between Miles and Alaska explains the concept: "It's not life or death, the labyrinth." "Um, okay. So what is it?" "Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things

‘If people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane.’ Miles Halters feelings about the love of his life Alaska Young in John Greens Looking for Alaska could quite easily be mistaken for words spoken by Charlie about his secret love Sam in the popular film adaptation of The Perks of Being a Wallflower directed by the writer of the book Stephen Chbosky. Both Green and Chbosky place their young protagonists in confronting yet relatable situations in which they must confront death ,love and

Looking for Alaska is a book about a boy named Miles that goes away to a private school called Culver Creek were he meets a group of friends that he starts to hang out with throughout the year. He becomes very good friends with everyone and they begin to let him in on their secret spot called "the smoking hole", where they all smoke their cigarettes without getting in trouble. Soon he starts to get a crush on a girl named Alaska, which seems to already have a boyfriend. As soon as Miles starts to

The novel Looking for Alaska by John Green is about the before and after story about Miles Halter aka Pudge, it introduces him by going to a private school called Culver Creek boarding school in Birmingham, Alabama that’s where he dad went when he was his age. He meets Chuck his roommate and Alaska when Alaska sees Pudge for the very first time she immediately decides to name him Pudge because of his skinny figure. He makes friends(Laura and Takumi) and falls in love with Alaska quickly. Pudge is

The two main settings in Looking for Alaska are a boarding school, Culver Creek. This boarding school is know for taking kids that would not be friends and forming a special bond between the kids. The second, most important setting is the lake. The lake is a place where the kids can get away. They go here to do things that are not allowed on campus. For example, smoking, the kids go to the beach like shoreline and smoke. The time period in which Looking for Alaska takes place is, modern day